If you kept goats in Crete or Cyprus, chances are your animals browsed on common native shrubs called cistus. These are to the Mediterranean what sagebrush is to the American West, and thus share some ...

WHEN the sun shines, few plants look as splendid as the sunroses, and they have been wonderful in recent days. The sunrose, or cistus, is not a true rose but it has flowers that are very similar in ...

In the right environmental conditions, this shrub of the Cistus variety can bring beauty to your garden all throughout the ...

"Ambergris, a waxy secretion formed in the intestines of sperm whales, is one of the most-sought-after substances in the world." This description came from a January Bloomberg Businessweek detailing ...

Cistus 'Grayswood Pink' is one of many rockroses that are well-suited to hot sun and low-water use. 'Grayswood Pink' grows into a pleasing mound of gray-green, evergreen foliage; it reaches about 3 ...